2. Slate has proof that the code name for the mission to capture Saddam, "Operation Red Dawn", was actually named after the early 1980s Patrick Swayze movie "Red Dawn"--it's not a coincidence. I am so proud yet so ashamed of our armed forces.

3. Ezra Klein of Pandagon has a good post on "those African bankers/widows/relatives/finance ministers/elves/Townhall columnists who send you E-mail asking for your assistance in recovering 30 million dollars lost during the great unicorn invasion of eleventy hundred?" I can't add much to that description, but I would advise people who send me those emails to stop titling them "LEGITIMATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL"--it somehow seems defensive.

4. Roger Clemens announces he's "still retired right now." This fake retirement thing is becoming an epidemic in sports. It's very awkward, like hugging someone goodbye at a party and then seeing them 10 minutes later.

UPDATE:
5. This one is somewhat political, but I have deemed it Blog Post of the Week, so I am posting it anyway:
Amygdala, via Ted Barlow, on the War on Straw--the trend of using stupid comments by stupid political opponents of yours to prove that all your political opponents are stupid:

"Main Entry: straw man. Function: noun. Date: 1896
1 : a weak or imaginary opposition (as an argument or adversary) set up only to be easily confuted."

Now, Sullivan his fellow warriors are quoting real people so they'd argue that it's not a straw man argument. But they are deliberately choosing the worst & weakest comments on the worst sites to generalize about the entire Democratic party, or the entire group of people who opposed the Iraq war, or "the Left". (Overuse of the term "the Left" is a pretty good tip-off actually.)

In that sense--it's a straw man argument. Or, if you want to be picky, the functional equivalent of a straw man argument. Either way, it's just about worthless.

People on the left do plenty of this too, but they examples I've seen are more likely to rely on statements by an actual politician, or a prominent blogger, or a widely watched or read media person.